Re: Health Industry Under-Prepared to Protect Patient Privacy, Says PwC Report

January 18th, 2012
Digitized health data is becoming one of the most highly valued assets in the health industry.

Physician’s computers were stolen

December 28th, 2011
Five computers containing medical and personal information of more than 3,000 patients were stolen from a Stone Oak physician's office in October.

Re: Study shows privacy of medical records is weaker in the U.S.

November 9th, 2011
Virginia Tech law professor warns that stronger safeguards for electronic health records are necessary

Re: SAIC Hit With $4.9B Lawsuit Over TRICARE Data Theft

November 4th, 2011
Another breach: health-care beneficiaries' records were stolen from the car of an employee in San Antonio.

Patient Data Posted Online in Major Breach of Privacy

September 8th, 2011
Stanford medical breach shows just what experts have been saying for a while: privacy standards are insufficient in electronic health records today.

Hospitals Wary of Hackers Seek Insurance from AIG

June 27th, 2011
Segment on EHRs and Patient Privacy features speaker from Health Privacy Summit Jim Pyles

Re:Epsilon breach used four-month-old attack

April 13th, 2011
Epsilon, the world’s largest email service provider, did not respond to 4 month-old warnings that their systems were vulnerable to hackers trying to access...

Poll shows: We trust our doctors, not their systems

February 18th, 2011
And Many respondents don't even trust themselves with their own records!

Experts Forecast Top Seven Trends in Healthcare Information Privacy for 2011

January 5th, 2011
What are the top security and privacy issues facing the healthcare industry in 2011?

Re: Release of Ponemon “Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security” on Nov 9th

November 9th, 2010
Study found that 53% of health care organizations are “not confident” they know where patient data is actually located.